Load time on my machine is fine, but I'm not sure why this game just seems to fire up the temperatures of the whole system.

My PC runs most other recent games just fine, the temp for the GPU(9800gt with stock cooling) is usually 70-80C under load, with CPU(Q6600) temp at around 50-60C. Once I start DA the GPU goes up to 80-90+ and CPU to over 70+ in about 20mins even on low settings.

Yep, the core gameplay is disappointing. Dumbed down and more importantly, nothing like the original DOW. Most of the online games play out the same way since there's no base building or tech tree to speak of.

The Last Stand is a nice break but like Slink said, I'd rather them spending all the resources elsewhere. Perhaps on fixing the core gameplay first before balance and even bug fixes, or just let it die and work on a proper PC version of W40K Space Marines.

Exactly. It's slow, and has no strategic variety to speak of. This game seems to have done everything on the opposite side of what the original dow did. It's fun if one likes to play cat and mouse using 3 or 4 units, chasing each other around the points for the entire game.

Every game plays out the same after tier2 since there just aren't enough options to choose from.

Relic has been putting a great deal of effort into supporting this game, but I'd rather them just forget about dow2 and get a move on to dow3(or just get back to patching dow1). This game needs much more than just balance fixes.

I wonder how many people are still playing the campaign. Is it really worth putting resources in adding new items to that instead of spending the time on eg. reworking the fucked up balance? I do appreciate the effort, it's just that there are more important issues that need to be addressed.

I hope this is just a gameplay pre-visulisation, and that it's not an indication of how the settings would be. One thing I loved about BGE was the fantasy & sci-fi setting, and this videos shows little of that.

I don't know if it was marketed as an RPG in the first place. That would have been quite a stretch. It was kinda fun anyway, but I was hoping for a more wicked game along the lines of Dungeon Keeper, ie. fighting heroes and such instead of just other evil creatures.

The game looks good. I agree on the no awful racing mission part. That mission drove me nuts, oh and I don't want to see my character get killed after I kept him alive for the whole length of the game.

Everything they keep talking about is how things have changed and that shallow and quicker is better than longer and deeper. I fear that going forward from this point onward that Bioware - as we knew and loved it - is done.

We are not sure if that view is going to change their design philosophy. Bioware should know well the fact that most people have no problem of them making essentially the same game over and over ever since BG2. They should be smart enough to keep doing the same thing.

And find someone who can properly balance a game. Glad to see CoH players are finally getting a patch. Relic has said that they realize how much of a nightmare patching their games is, and that in DOW2 they have fixed that with a l33t patching system...it's been almost a month now since we last saw a patch which still couldn't fix the damn balance so that the game is playable competetively.

What I can't stand is the unit imbalances. There is a very clear set of units for each army that get the best results and that is at least 90% of the games you play.

I've lost faith in Relic's ability to properly balance a game. As of now, DOW2's balance is a big fuck-all to all non-nids(or eldar) players.

Playing as orks is a joke, so many units yet so few useful ones, especially against the nids.

I had such high hopes for this game. Too bad they seem to choose to please the nids fans only. Adding a race without any personality was a minor diappointment in the first place, now this race is breaking the game's balance. It's pissing me off.

The only reason I log in and play a few games now is to try and rank up my profile so I can see the cooler stuff on my orks.

Good luck to that. If you can win using orks vs other races, mostly eldar and OMFGPwNAG3 nids, please enlighten me.